Which trait condemned in this passage do you also carry? Where does it show up?

Theme: shadow · card 2/4 · 2026-05-28

It is not due to self‐ hypnotization. It is a perfectly calm, sane, sound, rational, common‐sense shifting of consciousness from the phenomena of sense‐ perception to the phenomena of seership, from the thought of self to a distinctively higher realm.... For example, if the lower self be nervous, anxious, tense, one can in a few moments compel it to be calm.

— William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

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